And she had a lot of gumption. I don't think her parents were modern, but they couldn't hold her back. She was going to do what she wanted to do." Hing died of cancer and heart failure in July 2001. Legacy Hing is portrayed in a mural of female Oregon aviators at the Portland International Airport. Her story was featured in the Multnomah County Library's 2012 exhibit "Flying Tigers: Chinese American Aviators in Oregon, 1918-1945" and the Oregon Historical Society's 2016 exhibit, "Beyond the Gate". Hing's first plane is displayed in the Pearson Air Museum. See also Hazel Ying Lee Bessie Coleman Mary Riddle Dorothy Hester Stenzel Arthur Chin Henry Hope Wong Rose Lok Lee Ya-Ching Tex Rankin References 1907 births 2001 deaths American women aviators American aviators of Chinese descent Aviators from Portland, Oregon 20th-century American women 20th-century American people